Sonnet - Ben Grossman

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
by William Shakespeare






Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.





Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;






But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.





So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.






This is a Shakespearean sonnet. At the start of the poem the poet builds up the subject of the poem comparing them to summer. The thing about summer is that it doesn't last forever. The subject will be remembered forever through the poem as long as it exists.